Posts tagged “garbage”

Two hour delay for school this morning. Teachers to report on time or as close to it as they can, safely. I was making it!

I drove by “the find”. but when I got to the top of the intersection by school, I turned around on the snowy hill and went back and captured what I saw in the trash.

Snow on a discarded cat tree started my day.

The snow on the cat tree shapes caught my eye.

Across the street( from my second turn around) I saw these windshield wipers standing at attention.

Then on the way home from school, I thought I’d see how my favorite tree in the nearby park was looking with the snow on the branches. Looks identical to my other photos of this particular tree in the park when it snows but I felt happy it was there.

I like it when a color photograph looks black and white

The snowman was a bonus and I even got out of my car and trudged through about 6 inches to find him with sunglsses, branches for arms and a carrot nose. As my friend V, who had been shoveling earlier, said “The snow is perfect to make a snowman.”

How the light changes throughout the day. When I got home, The Mary statue I rescued from someone’s trash a few years ago had a halo of fresh snow. She was painted by the puppeteer, Laura O.

Loyal reader Stef doesn’t get my fascination with photographing trash. I don’t totally understand the attraction to it myself. But I am thinking about it. Our family will be dragging out quite a bit of garbage after the holiday.

Litter. Dumpsters. Abandoned couches on front lawns, receptacles overflowing onto the sidewalk. We humans create a lot of waste. And the garbage collectors come every week, to my amazement. I think it’s a hard job.

You can get a degree in garbologyand analysis waste (something like an anthropologist) a way study cultures- current or ancient. Anyone collect those Garbage Pail Kids,the trading cards from the mid 80’s? I think there are still a few around the house in a box somewhere.

I haven’t been photographing much garbage as of late but here’s the dumpster right at the entrance of Heinz FIeldas people are entering the stadium. Not difficult to analysis and gather information from this collection. Wonder if someone is going to recycle all the beverage containers.

My mother always said, “You can tell a lot about someone by their garbage.” How is your trash?

Found in McMurray PA on my way home from a First Bday party last Saturday evening. I’d pulled off the main road cause I was traveling the wrong direction. Before I went to pull out I was able get the camera off my seat as I sat at a stop sign and catch this chair. Canon 70-200 lens on 5D. I shot at ISO 100 and I wish I had changed it to 4oo.

My family always called these vacuum cleaners but in Pennsylvania you “run the sweeper”. These two are in Clintonville (Laura’s Neighborhood) when we walked on Saturday. The sun shone down on them as they stood at attention.